You can do a cute lil fist pump in Splatoon 2

On Sunday, I spent most of my waking hours playing Splatoon 2. I’m obsessed.

The campaign is delightful and creative, as expected, and I just love exploring every nook and cranny in the overworlds. The competitive multiplayer — yeah, I need to get better at that. I’m rusty as hell, and that puts a damper on would-be marathon sessions. But the new four-player co-op horde mode, Salmon Run? That’s the ticket right there. That’s the reason I can’t stop playing Splatoon 2. It has exceeded my expectations in every way (aside from the lack of split-screen, which is a bummer).

I’ve had my head down trying to learn the ins and outs of Salmon Run — the best way to take out the bosses with each of the randomly-assigned weapons, how to prioritize egg gathering vs. survival, remembering not to jump off the ledge in case it’s high tide — and that means I’ve missed a lot of the game’s amusing little details. Stuff like this fist pump captured by Dylan Schirtz: